After entering the narrow small shower room, the administrator put on gloves, masks, and simple protective clothing, and took out a large sanitized bamboo basket from the disinfection room.

Mo Bai stripped himself naked with familiarity, and then threw his clothes into the frame.

Xia Zhixin has lived for forty years, where has he ever seen such a battle.

An old face was flushed, and he refused to take off his clothes for anything.

"Mr. Xia, we have to hurry, otherwise we won't be able to catch lunch!"

Under Mo Bai's repeated urging, Xia Zhixin had no choice but to follow suit and take off his clothes.

"Come and pick up your clothes tomorrow."

"Yes, thank you, uncle!"

Mo Bai thanked the caretaker, who dragged the bamboo basket away and fumigated and disinfected the clothes inside, completely killing all kinds of parasites.

In fact, this kind of tattered clothes, according to Zhu Fugui's meaning, were directly burned by fire.

After all, it's not worth a lot of money, and many Chinese workers' clothes are too dirty, and I don't know how many lice are hidden!

But then I heard that Long Live Lord wanted to give clothes to everyone who became a naturalized Ming Dynasty, and the old eunuch Li hugged Zhu Fugui's thigh and cried to death: "Long live Lord, now there are only more than 2,000 mouths in Daming, and there is still room for money, if Shenzhou is recovered, 40,000 people will follow this example, even if Zhu Taogong and Shen Wansan are dug out, they won't be able to make up so much silver!" ”

Seeing Lao Li crying sadly, Zhu Fugui felt that there was some truth to it.

The workers of the royal factory and the soldiers of the royal army are all people who directly create value and wealth for Zhu Fugui, and it is nothing to treat them preferentially.

If you think that with the system, you can do everything, and even unarmed newcomers have to take care of food and clothing, it really doesn't make sense.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui also gave up the plan to change their clothes directly, and instead changed to sanitize clothes.

Anyway, they are all ready-made fumigation workshops, which can be regarded as secondary use.

……

Cramped shower room, naked striped man.

It's hard not to think of Tokusan's evil deeds.

It must be cramped and uneasy to let Zhu Fugui stay in such a small space.

But the ignorant are fearless, and Mo Bai is hearty.

Mr. Tosha's blessing was that he was able to enjoy a free hot bath again.

Otherwise, you can only get a bath coupon if you have fixed your position.

Mo Bai didn't expect Mr. Xia to be so twisted when he took a bath, and he was about to be swollen by the water, so he could finish washing.

However, thinking of the first time he used "realgar shower gel" and "insecticidal shampoo", Mo Bai also felt normal.

Blowing bubbles is indeed fun!

Forty minutes later, two men with wet hair walked out of the bathroom in loose dressing gowns.

The weather is already warmer in June.

Otherwise, just wearing this kind of nightgown of the same style as Qiao Shan, you will definitely catch a cold.

Zhu Fugui is generally a nostalgic person.

After the last time he and Sayuri clothing store did a business for the uniforms of the Southern Army, Zhu Fugui felt that their family had fast delivery, good quality, and many gifts, so he bought all the clothes from his house after that.

This batch of bath robes was sent to the Sayuri Garment Factory when they were ordered to make workwear.

Of course, Daming will have to win the garment piece by himself sooner or later, but now that Daming's human resources are seriously insufficient, Zhu Fugui will naturally not extravagantly build a garment processing factory.

This kind of factory will gradually reduce its domestic production capacity in 2023 and move to places like Bangladesh, which is enough to see its high labor intensity and low industrial added value.

Only when the population grows and employment becomes a pressure, garment factories are a good choice.

However, Zhu Fugui hopes that his Ming Empire will occupy the high ground of the industrial chain from the beginning, and try not to take the old road of sweatshops.

From the current point of view, the honeymoon period between Zhu Fugui and Sayuri still has a long time.

One thing to say, although this batch of dressing gowns is a giveaway, the workmanship is quite good.

The only drawback, I'm afraid, is ......

The most common bright yellow color scheme in the bathing center looks rich and atmospheric.

But in the territory of the Ming Dynasty at this moment, such a yellow robe must not be used.

Zhu Fugui dares to buy it, and the people below may not dare to wear it.

It's not that Zhu Fugui has feudal thoughts, nor does he want to be a self-styled single husband, but the current form has to be like this.

Today, the legal basis for the establishment of the entire Ming Empire lies in the legal system of the Ming Dynasty.

The concept of more than 2,000 years of imperial power is still unbreakable in the hearts of today's Chinese.

At least in this period when it is most necessary to unite people's hearts, Zhu Fugui must put an end to something that may shake the foundation of imperial power.

As for whether he chooses to learn from the Emperor, the King of Thailand, or even the little brother of Meiji in the future, this is a later story.

Anyway, Zhu Fugui has never thought of the option of self-revolution.

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After taking a shower and getting vaccinated against smallpox, Mo Bai took Xia Zhixin to the cafeteria to eat.

For the abundance of food in the church, Xia Zhixin, who has been hospitalized these days, has a deep understanding.

Before, he thought that Mo Bai had borrowed usury so that he could bring him one meat and two vegetarian meals every day.

But when he arrived at the cafeteria, Xia Zhixin realized that he was very wrong.

The so-called canteen is actually a large arched shed built with brackets and asbestos tiles.

When it was time to eat, the workers came to eat in twos and threes.

The basic food is one meat and two vegetables, and the rice is enough.

If you want to eat better, you have to spend money.

Of course, most of the workers are still very frugal, and in order to save money to buy bicycles, they choose to eat free side meals.

One meat and two vegetables, this is already a luxury that I didn't dare to think of before!

Of course, this meat is not a big meat such as whole chicken and whole duck, hoof sauce elbow and so on.

It is usually a piece of braised pork with a belt fat, or a fragrant braised chicken thigh.

The most common is braised chicken thighs.

Purchased online, white feather chicken frozen chicken thighs, cheap simply do not look like meat.

Xia Zhixin followed Mo Bai and received a stainless steel dinner plate and lined up at the back of the line to cook.

When it was their turn, the chubby Yin elder sister gave Xia Zhixin a big spoonful of pork vermicelli and threw a wink.

"Obediently, shouldn't the eldest sister take a fancy to you, Mr. Xia?"

Back at the table, Mo Bai looked at Xia Zhixin's plate with at least 1.5 times the amount of fans on his plate, and couldn't help but guess.

"What nonsense!"

Xia Zhixin's old face turned red and said, "Xu is that little lady saw that I was recovering from a serious illness, so she played more to nourish my body." ”

"Not necessarily!"

Mo Bai looked left and right, and said in a low voice, "I heard from the old Chinese workers that there are many men and girls here, and most of them are unmarried women. A beautiful man like you, who is full of poetry and books, must be very popular! ”

"And that kind of thing?"

Xia Zhixin's eyes widened in surprise, Rao was full of poetry and books, and he didn't know what to say.

As a widower who has lost his wife for more than ten years, Xia Zhixin has not thought about continuing the string.

Especially after pulling his son up little by little, this thought is even more so.

However, in recent years, there has been a serious imbalance in the gender ratio in the southeast.

In addition, the polyandry concubinage system is essentially the sexual exploitation of low-level men by the powerful, which makes it more and more difficult for old singles to marry wives.

The sky-high bride price is not something that has just appeared in the 21st century.

Xu Wei, a genius of the Ming Dynasty, once wrote: The style of marrying extravagance in eastern Zhejiang is prevalent, "although a woman is in infancy, she is hired by a rich family, as much as five or seven hundred gold." (The girl is still in her infancy, and there is a dowry for the children of rich families, which is equivalent to more than 2 million yuan now)

Xu Wei's statement is exaggerated, or it may be an isolated case.

However, according to records, during the Qing Dynasty, the bride price of ordinary families in the Jiangnan area was as high as fifty or sixty taels, which is equivalent to the amount that local long-term workers can save without eating or drinking for six years.

In later generations, it took about the same time for a young man with an ordinary job to gather a bride price.

Zhu Fugui's ancestor, Comrade Zhu Baba, was deeply touched by such a phenomenon.

After he became the emperor, he once decreed: "The ancient wedding, the marriage of two surnames, in order to value people." In modern times, it is a matter of hiring money and dyeing luxury. It is advisable to order the province to assemble and customize the promulgation to comply, so as to advocate thrift and thick customs. Those who violate it will be punished as the law. ”

Of course, just like Comrade Lao Zhu's efforts to rectify corrupt officials, this holy decree could not withstand the laws of human nature and nature, and was eventually reduced to a dead letter.

In fact, throughout the history of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in China, the bride price has never been a cheap thing, and marrying a wife is not an easy thing.

It is only after the founding of New China that this phenomenon was reversed in a small period of time after the founding of New China was completed in a short period of time and the female population was liberated, so that the new generation of Chinese mistakenly believed that no bride price was the norm.

It is also recorded that during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the ratio of men to women in Suzhou, Jiaxing and other places was about 13 to 100. The ratio of men to women in Beijing is 200 to 100. The people of Jinqu in Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty had no wives and half, and eight of the ten people in Wenzhou in the Qing Dynasty had no families.

Although Xia Zhixin's hometown is not as good as 80% of the men who are singles, there are also more monks and less porridge, and the big monks still drink more than a dozen bowls of porridge, which makes the poor monks unable to drink porridge.

So much so that when Xia Zhixin heard that he was still in charge of his wife here, he was surprised that even the fans in his mouth leaked out.

It turns out that this kind of crazy involution in the marriage market has been difficult to solve for hundreds of years, and there is still a way to break through outward?

Could it be that his own rebel is still a pioneer? Was the first person to eat crabs?

"It seems that this White Lotus Sect also has merit!"

Xia Zhixin wiped his mouth, and then secretly glanced at the fat aunt with big breasts and big butts in the cafeteria, who was very good at a glance, and the latter also happened to cast a bright smile.

"It's still important to find a son!"

Xia Zhixin lowered his head and hurriedly took a big mouthful of rice for himself and ate it in his mouth.

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